Sometimes being first doesn’t mean you’re the best. With Wolfenstein: Youngblood arriving later this month (our hands-on impressions are here), now is as good a time as any to look at the series’ strange and alluring catalog of Nazi-slaying adventures and rank them from worst to best.
Wolfenstein’s amblings (and its missteps) have covered a lot of ground for a video game that’s elevator pitch is “kill Nazi scum,” including demonology, space travel, multiple timelines, violent political resistance, and (somehow) heartfelt portraits of people struggling to stay sane in a world that’s burning down around them. The series has gone through a ridiculous number of ups, downs, and reboots (soft and hard) since its inception in the ’80s. Wolfenstein marks one of the first-person shooter genre’s most convoluted journeys.
